Education
Graduated in Political, Social and International Sciences in 2014 from the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna, he obtained a double Master's degree in Comparative Social Policy and Industrial Relations, at the State University of Milan and the University of Bremen in 2018. He subsequently obtained a PhD in Political Science at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Science in 2022.
Academic career
He worked as a PhD researcher at the Research Centre on Inequality and Social Policy at the University of Bremen from 2018 to 2022, where he also taught introductory sociology courses (2019/20 and 2020/21). Subsequently, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh for two years (2023/2024). Since December 2024 he has been a research fellow in Economic and Labour Sociology at the University of Bologna, where he is Principal Investigator of the project Social Investment and Technological Change: Mitigating Inequality in the Knowledge Economy (SINTECH).
Teaching activities
From 2019 to 2021 he taught Introduction to Sociology at the Bachelor of Arts in Sociology at the University of Bremen, where he also participated as a guest lecturer in several courses on quantitative methods for social research. In 2023 he was a guest lecturer in the courses Comparative Social Policy - A Global Perspective and European Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh. In 2022 and 2023 he supervised several theses in the Masters of Public Policy and Comparative Public Policy at the University of Edinburgh.
Scientific activities
He has participated in several national and international research programmes including: Collaborative Research Centre 1342 on the global diffusion of social policies at the University of Bremen funded by the German Research Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust Grant funded project The Political Economy of Knowledge-Based Growth at the University of Edinburgh. Since 2025 he has been in charge of his own research project Social Investment and Technological Change: Mitigating Inequality in the Knowledge Economy (SINTECH) funded by the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna.
Institutional Activities and Academic Assignments
From 2023 to 2024 he was co-organiser and chair of the Work, Economy and Welfare Seminar at the University of Edinburgh.
